Baguetting Started

  Fortune Favours the Brave… Or so they say. “Nothing happens inside your comfort zone!”, you  hear them chant from the sidelines, hiding behind the curtains. It seems that, to make progress in our lives, we must step outside the realms of passivity and hasten towards the uncomfortable!I    I am, I believe, a brave person and have led an extraordinary life, depending on your definition of bravery and where bravery finishes and stupidity begins .  Sometimes I failed, sometimes I rose from the ashes, coughed, spluttered and carried on. But my French adventure, my most monumentally important adventure, has me intrigued. What I will never know, to this day, is if it was my bravery that won the day, that achieved my loftiest goals. Or the bravery of another that forced my hand. Was it bravery or compliance? Either way, it was to my great advantage.   So, I had a dream of living in France that’s been percolating away in the background for a few decades…indee...